John Paul Caponigro is a pioneer in digital photography. His life-long study of the arts and creativity began with his family life and later including under-graduate studies at Yale University. John Paul’s father, Paul, and mother, Eleanor Caponigro, a painter and graphic designer, introduced John Paul at a young age to countless musicians, writers, dealers, curators, photographers, and artists including Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keefe — all of whom had a profound effect on his own artistic career.

John Paul went on to become the first digital printing instructor at Maine Media Workshops, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Photographic Center, and Rocky Mountain School of Photography. He was one of five artists selected to lead the Epson Print Academy. Having taught thousands of participants over thirty years, he now teaches his own premiere digital printing workshops in his private studio. In addition, he is respected as an authority on creativity and fine art digital photography and digital printing. He is a highly sought-after speaker, lecturing extensively at conferences, universities, and museums, and in venues as diverse as TEDx, MIT, and Photoshop World.

Exhibited internationally, John Paul’s works have been purchased by private and public collections, including Smithsonian National Museum of American History, The Princeton University Art Museum, and Museum Of Fine Art, Houston. He consults with the corporations that build the tools he uses, including Adobe, Apple, Canon, Kodak, and Sony. He is a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame, Epson’s Stylus Pros, and X-Rite’s Coloratti, and his work is published widely in periodicals and books, including Art News and The Ansel Adams Guide. In addition, John Paul’s conversations with other photographers are part of the George Eastman House’s permanent collection.

John Paul, a process artist exploring evolving new media, dynamically combines his background in painting with traditional and alternative photographic processes using state-of-the-art digital technology. A colorist of remarkable breadth and sensitivity, he uses light as both a physical and psychological force to explore the ephemeral and the intangible – space, time, energy – and their extensions into spiritual dimensions.

Get a taste of what he does in his Google and TEDx talks.